The Monsieur intelligent bartender recently made a stop by the Tom's Hardware office for a demonstration. By all accounts, it looks like it could be life of a party. But can you afford it? Or maybe the better question is, do you want to afford it?

Google Compute Engine is now generally available and facing the three headed cloud monster: Amazon's AWS, Rackspace and Microsoft's Azure. How will Compute Engine fare against the three established public IaaS players? Will it become the next big thing...